Archive for the ‘Depression’ Category
2
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Courage, Decision, Decision Making, Depression, Dificulty, Dishonest, Dispute, End of Relationship, Fear, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Healing, Honesty, Hurt emotions, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Love Letters, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-forgiveness, Shame, Spirituality, Tough Times, course of right action, deceit, feelings, forgiveness, inspiration. Tagged: Love, relationship, End of Relationship, Sunday in the Park with George, Separation, Divorce, Grief, Loss of relationship, Good bye. 3 Comments
“I left because there was no room for me. But you could tell me not to go. Say it to me. Tell me not to go.” — Stephen Sondheim. Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.
To leave someone we love is to knowingly break a vital connection. Even if we chose to leave, we [...]
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10
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Adversity, Afraid, Awareness, Blogging, Challenge, Changling, Chemical Dependency, Childhood Memories, Consciousness, Courage, Defects, Delusion, Depression, Dishonest, Drug Addiction, Dysfunction, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Past Transgressions, People in your life, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self concept, Self-improvement, Shortcomings, Spirituality, Truth, connection, course of right action, feelings, sobriety. Tagged: Anger, Blogging, despair, Expression of feelings, feelings, Having a Good Cry, Higher Power, Inner Feelings, Inner Life, Journaling, Letting go, Life, Moving On, Outer Life, Outer Self, Past, Past Pain, Rage, sorrow, Spiritual Nourishment, Spirituality, Suppress Feelings, Suppressed, Work Through Difficult Feelings. 2 Comments
I’ve realized that there’s a difference between my ability to feel, my ability to express my feelings, and my ability to let go. I know there are many painful emotions I learned to suppress when I was young, particularly anger or sadness. Other emotions might be difficult to feel because they are connected to past pain.
Yet [...]
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16
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Depression, Family, Fear, Friends, Friendship, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Truth. Tagged: Addiction, All About Me, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Family, Fear, Forgiveness, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Truth, Wisdom. 4 Comments
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves.” — Bonaro Overstreet
I was going about my life when suddenly; I became aware that I was feeling anxious, uncomfortable and insecure. But what I feel underneath is afraid. Even [...]
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15
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Change, Depression, Fear, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Change, Depression, Family, Family of Choice, Fear, Friendship, Friendships, Honesty, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Truth, Wisdom. Leave a Comment
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie
Fear usually comes from ignorance and it paralyzes usually only as long as we remain in the dark. For many of us, fear is often free-floating anxiety that overtakes us inexplicably and pushes us toward unaccountable actions.
Anxiety and fear have [...]
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14
Sep
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Change, Chemical Dependency, Depression, Drug Addiction, Hope, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Spirituality, Suffering. Tagged: Depression, Spirituality, Crystal Meth, Drug Addiction, Recovery, Life, Addiction, humiliation, Personal Growth, Worthlessness, Hope, Change, Opinions, CMA, Suffering, Chemical Dependency, Crystal Meth Anonymous, Life's Lessons, Wisdom, Life with crystal meth abuser, Inferior, Inferiority, Consensual Sex, Sex Addiction, degrading sex acts, debasement, release of tension, worthless. Leave a Comment
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Even though we may deny it, there are those of us that may secretly want to be hurt by others; since, in some strange abhorrent way, we think that is what we deserve. Before I became clean and sober, I lost my good [...]
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7
Sep
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Chemical Dependency, Conflict, Decision Making, Depression, Drug Addiction, Fear, Health, Hope, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Spirituality, Suffering, Truth. Tagged: Addiction, Adversity, Boundaries, challenges, Change, Chemical Dependency, Conflict, Crystal Meth, Decision Making, Depression, Drug Addiction, Fear, Health, help others, Hope, How you look at it, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, Look fear in the face, Meeting Needs, Mental Health, meth, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Spirituality, Suffering, Truth, Wisdom. Leave a Comment
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the things I know I have gained through recovery and [...]
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22
Aug
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Change, Conflict, Depression, Enthusiasm, Fear, Hope, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Spirituality, Suffering. Tagged: Addiction, Change, Commitments, Conflict, Depression, Enthusiasm, Fear, Grace, Hope, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, Meeting Needs, Mental Health, peace, personal discovery, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, sobriety, Spirits up, Spirituality, Struggle, Suffering, Trust, When the best we have to give is required, Wisdom. Leave a Comment
Can such thing be, And overcome us like a summer’s cloud, Without our special wonder? — William Shakespeare
To overcome my feeling of being lost, alone and afraid; overwhelmed by the challenges I now face, I am going through my “tool belt” of coping mechanisms that I have added along life’s way. To reclaim my ability [...]
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20
Jul
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Fear, Health, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Loneliness, Love, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Solitude, Suffering, Truth. Tagged: Addiction, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Fear, Health, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Loneliness, Love, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Solitude, Suffering, Truth. Leave a Comment
For four days, I was unable to get out of bed. I couldn’t eat. I didn’t care about anything. I wanted to die. Really, I found myself hating my life so much that I began to think putting an end to it was the answer. The last time I felt this way was that dreadful [...]
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10
Jul
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Boundaries, Conflict, Depression, Fear, Honesty, Life, Life's Lessons, Lying, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Truth. Tagged: Alan Cohen, Amends, Being Honest With Another Person, Boundaries, Conflict, Depression, detachment, disconnection, dishonesty, Dispute, Dissapointment, Fear, Hate, hatred, Healing, Honesty, Life, Life's Lessons, Lying, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Quote about healing, Relationships, Resentment, Resentments, Tools for personal growth, Truth, Wicca, Wisdom. 1 Comment
For every person in your past with whom you feel unhealed but unable to go back and resolve, there is someone standing before you offering you the opportunity to practice the healing you believe you missed.
– Alan Cohen
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14
Jun
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Depression, Gay, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Health, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Loneliness, Love, Personal Growth, Relationships. Tagged: Afraid, Alone, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Confused, confusion, Depression, Fear, Fear of being alone, Gay, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Health, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Loneliness, Lost, Love, Mental Health, Out of Synch, overwhelmed, Personal Growth, Relationships, Simplify life. Leave a Comment
Today I feel alone, afraid and confused. I feel as if every action I take is the wrong one. I feel every word that is uttered from my mouth is the wrong one. My self confidence is zero. I feel unfulfilled in a large portion of my life. I’m not sure yet what to do [...]
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